25 August 2009

Two juicers arrived at our house this weekend.  Two big boxes.  They included the Breville 800JEXL Juice Fountain Elite 1000-Watt Juice Extractor and the Breville 800CPXL Die-Cast Stainless-Steel Motorized Citrus Press

In our efforts to eat whole foods and gain as many nutrients as possible from our foods we again find ourselves juicing.  In the past we had tried a series of juice fasts but never really kept juicing as part of our regular regime.  How can we make juicing a part of our healthy living plan?  Well we needed to find tools that would make juicing easy.  We did some research and decide the two Breville juicing tools would be the best tools for us.  What we found from our research is that if you want to juice citrus you’ll want the juice press, but for other fruits or vegetables you’ll want to use the Juice extractor.   So we are trying both.

Now when juicing you’ll want to use as many organic fruits and veggies you can.  The organic produce will allow you to use the the skins safely. The skins contain so many nutrients you don’t want to miss juicing the skins. And you won’t have to peel the produce saving you time.

We tried a Carrot, Apple juice first.  We found it is best to peel the carrots when juice, the flavor is better.  The apple should be juiced in its full form.

Do wash all of your produce prior to juicing.  We used a wash of water and organic white vinegar.

About 8 medium peeled carrots to one green apple will make a nice juice which is not too sweet.  Green apples have far more nutrient qualities then their red sisters.

We also tried a Carrot, Cucumber, Celery, Apple.  It was more refreshing and not sweet.  Use about 8 medium carrots, half an English cucumber, three stalks of celery and one green apple.  The only thing we peeled were the carrots.

The Breville Juice Extractor was fast to juice.  Really amazing.  The clean up was simple and easy.  It is best to clean it shortly after juicing.  All the parts were very high quality.

We also tried the Breville citrus press. This press is so solid.  Very simple to operate that our 5 year old was juicing only a few minutes after we started.  You can easily use this every day.  The juice was delicious.  We made orange juice from organic Valencia oranges.  Yummy!  We had it with our weekend egg breakfast and I felt like I was at a fancy hotel breakfast.

We found most of our juice facts in Healing the Gerson Way: Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases.  This book is a wealth of information as to the history of the use of juicing in curing and combating chronic diseases and life long health.

As we perfect our favorite juice recipes we will post them to our recipe page.  I hope this post has inspired you to try juicing.  It will improve your health.